Seriously injured The Jump star Vogue Williams returns to the slopes

The Irish model celebrated recovering from an injury she suffered on this year's winter sports series — by going on a skiing holiday

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Nicola Fahey

9 Mar 2017, 17:46

THE Jump casualty Vogue Williams is celebrating recovering from her nasty injury on the show — by going on a skiing holiday.

The Irish presenter - who was forced to spend four days in hospital last week after a painful knee op – has booked the vacation for December to mark her ordeal being over.

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Vogue was forced to retire from The Jump after suffering a fallCredit: Channel 4

The 31-year-old was forced to quit telly’s most dangerous show days before its launch after falling during training doing ski cross – but hasn’t let that scare her off the sport.

Vogue revealed: “I’ve booked a ski holiday for Christmas. I booked it just before my operation - it was my step-dad’s idea.

“He said we should all go on a family trip away for Christmas and he said skiing. I was delighted - I can show off my new skills. I love it so much -and can’t wait to be back.”

The ex-wife of Brian McFadden was forced to sign off work for seven days last week after suffering “extra bleeding” following her first-ever operation to repair her ruptured knee, which has left her strapped up in a cast since the start of February.

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Vogue was replaced by Amy Willerton after the nasty snowboarding accident

Opening up about her surgery, she said: “Last week was difficult. I was in hospital for four days with my leg.

“I had some of my hamstring taken out and put into my knee, but I had extra bleeding on my leg.

“I wasn’t expecting that - I was going to go back to work the day after, but plans changed and I had to take the week off, recovering on the couch.

“I’ve never had an operation so everything hit me a bit harder - I wasn’t expecting to feel the way I felt.

“I just couldn’t really hack all the painkillers I was on and felt really weak and dizzy so they wanted to keep me in until I was feeling better.

“It’s so bruised at the moment.

“That’s the last of the operations and I’m doing five physio sessions a week, two hours a day."

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Vogue has been pictured at several events in a cast after undergoing an operation

However, Vogue insisted her injury wouldn’t deter her from starring on The Jump again if the C4 show gets recommissioned for another series.

She added: “It hasn’t put me off The Jump. It made me just jealous of everybody watching.

“I didn’t even look into compensation. It was an accident. I don’t blame anyone for what happened. I’m really well looked after.

“I’m not signed up for next year. The show hasn’t been commissioned for next year. If it does get commissioned and my knee was in the right place I would do it again.”

Vogue isn’t the only celebrity to have pulled out of this year’s fourth series of the ski show.

Sir Bradley Wiggins pulled out in the third week after injuring his leg, Caprice Bourret dropped out due to illness and injury and Gareth Thomas quit this week, just days before Sunday’s grand final, for “personal reasons”.

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Spencer Matthews has denied rumours of a romance with Vogue

Vogue was replaced by Amy Willerton, who is now in the grand final along with Spencer Matthews, Louis Smith, Kadeena Cox, Emma Parker-Bowles, Jason Robinson and Lydia Bright, who replaces Thomas.

Vogue has been linked to a host of famous faces since splitting from ex-husband Brian McFadden in 2015, including her Jump co-star Spencer Matthews and actor Laurence Fox.

But she has continued to deny the rumours, insisting she is happily single.

Vogue, who is the new face of Regatta’s SS17 range of Outdoor Active and Outdoor Lifestyle clothing, said: “(Co-star) Mark Dolan went and did a press interview and joking doesn’t translate well on tape.

“He said Spencer and me were a couple but we’re not a couple. Nothing happened. We do make a cute couple, we get on well, but I’m very happily single.

“I never thought I’d really say that because I was always a relationship person, but I’m quite happy to be on my own.

“I was dating people ,but now I’m not. I don’t really feel like going out at the moment. I don’t think crutches and dating go together very well."